ADA Compliance for Meeting Materials:
A Clerk’s Checklist
With the Department of Justice’s ADA Title II deadline rapidly approaching, municipal clerks must quickly transition online agendas, packets, and meeting minutes into compliant digital formats. This practical guide offers an operational checklist to help your office eliminate risky scanned PDFs, identify workflow gaps, and protect your municipality from legal liabilities without disrupting statutory timelines.
What you will learn:
Risk Discovery & Scope Resolution: How to audit your current meeting materials, document sources, and publishing platforms to pinpoint immediate compliance gaps.
Upstream Prevention Tactics: Strategies to coordinate with internal departments and external contributors to stop inaccessible attachments from reaching your desk.
Pre-Publish PDF Controls: Step-by-step methods to execute proper heading tags, run optical character recognition (OCR) on legacy files, and verify color contrast.
Ongoing Governance Workflows: How to build a sustainable internal timeline and recurring spot-checks that maintain continuous compliance alongside regular meeting deadlines.